Good morning, and very happy Friday to you — courtesy of these 16 goats munching away in a tree.

Now, here’s today’s agriculture news.

The Lead:

The Grain Farmers of Ontario has tabled a resolution to withdraw from the Ontario Federation of Agriculture. As Better Farming explains, the resolution was tabled at the organization’s annual meeting on Tuesday.

GFO says the resolution sends a “powerful message” about the state of relations between the two groups, with GFO officials arguing the Federation isn’t representing the views of the province’s grain framers. GFO and OFA have been embroiled in a dispute over Ontario’s handling of controversial restrictions on neonicotinoid pesticides — which grain farmers say are essential to the future of their operations.

In Canada:

A group of environmentalists are urging Environment Minister Leona Agluqqak to add several species of wild bees to Canada’s Species at Risk Act – warning they will be “forced to consider their options” if the government doesn’t act to “legally protect at-risk pollinators.”

The WTO has wrapped up its arbitration hearing on COOL. As The Western Producer reports, a decision is now expected November 27.

Three Conservative candidates have formed a multi-riding agriculture committee — but its future depends on all three men getting elected. As Peterborough Weekly reports, the three men held a roundtable with Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to discuss the pressing issues currently facing the industry.

Statistics Canada released its first crop report estimation using a new model-based methodology Thursday. As Real Agriculture reports, the model uses satellite and historical data from Statistics Canada’s traditional field reporting series.

Internationally:

The world’s largest breakfast cereal maker, Kellogg’s, is betting $450 million to buy a 50 per cent stake in Multipro, a Nigeria-based food distribution company owned by Tolaram. As Quartz reports, the joint venture is aimed at developing breakfast foods and snacks for the West African market, while providing access to a network of up to half a million retailers.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says organic food sales hit $5.5 billion in 2014 — a 72 per cent increase since 2008. As Fortune and Reuters explain, the industry’s growth has averaged 7 per cent per year in last six years.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is alerting consumers that frozen, raw, stuffed and breaded chicken products produced by Aspen Foods, a division of Koch Poultry Company of Chicago, IL, have been confirmed as having the same SalmonellaEnteritidis outbreak strain which was part of a July recall. Food Safety News has the details.

And the harvest in Western Australia is off to an early start. ABC Rural has the story.

The Western Producer says the CFIA has baffled Canada’s hog sector with their new truck rules.

Also from the Producer, Dan Mazier asks where the farm issues are this election — a question that has become even more relevant this morning given the sector wasn’t mentioned once in last night’s Globe and Mail debate on the economy.

The Kicker:

An American man says it took him six months and $1,500 to make a chicken sandwich from scratch. Andy George, the host of the popular YouTube Series ‘How to Make Everything,’ decided he wanted a chicken sandwich — but not just any chicken sandwich. He wanted to milk the cow, harvest the wheat, make his own sea salt and behead the chicken himself.

That’s your agriculture news for this week. Wishing you all a fabulous weekend and a safe harvest.